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Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Putin visit reflected India’s freedom of choice: Jaishankar
Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India for a bilateral summit this week reflected India's freedom of choice and policy of strategic autonomy, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday against the backdrop of pressure from the US to reduce purchases of Russian oil and military hardware.
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December 07, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
India has freedom of choice, no country has veto on ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India for a bilateral summit this week reflected India’s freedom of choice and policy of strategic autonomy, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday against the backdrop of pressure from the US to reduce purchases of Russian oil and military hardware.
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December 07, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
We pushed Nitish Kumar back into the arms of NDA
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) is sort of on life support and has to decide if it is a political bloc or a state-specific coalition, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday, adding that the Opposition will need to be cohesive and take decisions together to challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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December 07, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Russia Prez set to begin crucial visit to India
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to arrive in New Delhi on Thursday evening ona State Visit for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit
1 min |
December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Police reforms and the making of Viksit Bharat
Changes in public perception of police would require a comprehensive effort by different segments of society, beginning with the force itself
4 min |
December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Khrushchev era lessons on ceasing nuclear tests
This is essentially an anecdotal piece.
4 min |
December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Day 2: 250 IndiGo flights hit
At least 250 IndiGo flights were cancelled on Thursday as chaos continued at major airports across India, with the carrier struggling to adapt to stringent new crew rostering rules.
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December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
States must ensure availability of staff for SIR, orders top court
The Supreme Court on Thursday underscored that states governments cannot distance themselves from their statutory obligation to provide adequate manpower for electoral work, making it clear that they are duty-bound to ensure the availability of booth level officers (BLOs) for the Election Commission of India (ECI) during the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
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December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Common AI framework key to future development
At the just-concluded G20 summit in South Africa, where the agenda was themed “solidarity, equality, sustainability’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called fora “global Al compact” to ensure Alis human-centred, open-source, and inclusive.
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December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
US unveils ‘New G20’ for the 2026 summit, excludes South Africa
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that US will invite Poland, praising the country as a success story of post-Cold War resilience
2 min |
December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Cost of failing the passengers
India’s largest domestic airline must be penalised for the chaos in schedules and passengers have to be compensated for disruptions
2 min |
December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
'Protracted acid attack case trials shameful'
The Supreme Court on Thursday called for day-to-day special court trials in acid attack cases as it heard an acid attack survivor's plea seeking social security, even as the trial in her case remained pending in a Delhi court since 2009.
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December 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Ditwah exposes South Asia’s fragile edges
South Asia and Southeast Asia face a new class of disasters — storms that may not be the strongest by wind speed but are supercharged for rain. The infrastructure of the last century cannot meet the extremes of this one
4 min |
December 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
New horizons for an enduring partnership
When President Vladimir Putin arrives in New Delhi today for a State visit and the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit, he will be reaffirming one of the world’s most durable major partnerships.
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December 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Development and clean air are not binary choices
Last week, the Supreme Court of India handed developers a surprising reprieve in Confederation of Real Estate Developers of India (CREDAI) v. Vanashakti & Ors. 2025. In a 2:1 verdict authored by former Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran (with Justice Ujjal Bhuyan dissenting), the Court reopened the door to ex post facto environmental clearances (ECs), i.e., approvals granted to a project after construction has already begun, without the mandatory prior environmental scrutiny.
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December 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
India, EU eye plan to secure undersea cables
The protection of undersea cables will be in focus at a maritime security workshop being organised by India and the European Union (EU) in New Delhi on December 5 that will be attended by participants from key Indian Ocean countries located close to strategic submarine infrastructure.
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December 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
IT sheds weight in indices as AI rises
Combined weight of IT cos in BSE Sensex fell to an 18-year low
3 min |
December 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Homegrown blueprints for countering terrorism
The blast at Red Fort that injured scores and killed at least 12 persons, brought back terrorism to Delhi, which, since 2011, has been spared of any major terrorist strike.
3 min |
December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Playbook for diplomacy in the neighbourhood
I vividly remember boarding the then INS Vikrant—formerly HMS Hercules—with my father during a special port call to Colombo in the 1970s.
3 min |
December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Securing cellphones
Controversy over cybersecurity app brings issues of cyber fraud and privacy to the fore
2 min |
December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Reimagining transport policy to check pollution
Delhi and the larger NCR must adopt a forward-looking, data-driven strategy to reduce transport emissions
4 min |
December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Kharge criticises Centre for 'avoiding' core issues in Parl
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday pushed back against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks, accusing the Opposition of using Parliament to vent frustration after electoral defeat, and criticised the government for avoiding core issues that they insist must be taken up.
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December 02, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Bridging the gaps in rare earths sufficiency
Last week, the Union Cabinet approved the “Scheme to Promote Manufacturing of Sintered Rare Earth Permanent Magnets” with an outlay of ₹7,280 crore.
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
In pursuit of a SMART police
Change of public perception will follow once the police force is reformed
2 min |
December 02, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
EAM warns bio-weapon misuse 'no longer distant'
The misuse of biological weapons by non-state actors is no longer a “distant possibility” and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) must be modernised as it has no compliance system or mechanism to track new scientific developments, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Monday.
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December 02, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
SC seeks balance between free speech and privacy
The Supreme Court on Monday stressed the importance of a balanced approach to regulating YouTube and similar platforms, cautioning that inflexible and harsh rules to regulate YouTubers and those on similar digital platforms could impose a “gag on free speech” and prove “devastating\", even as it acknowledged the growing need for an effective mechanism to protect privacy, dignity and reputation of individuals and organisations from harmful online content.
1 min |
December 02, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Blue prosperity with plastic-free coastline
Plastic Island is the unfortunate nickname a small island in Norway called Lisle Lyngoy had earned, thanks to half a century of undisturbed accumulation of marine waste on its shores and in its surrounding waters.
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Parl session shouldn't be sacrificed for politics: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the country has embarked on a path of progress and that India has proved democracy can deliver. He said Parliament is for delivery and not drama.
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December 02, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
‘Bail is the rule but doesn’t mean entitlement to relief
Emphasising that the principle that “bail is the rule and jail, an exception,” does not entitle all accused to automatic relief, the Supreme Court has held that courts must also weigh the specific role of each accused, the gravity of the alleged offence, and its impact on society before granting bail.
1 min |
December 02, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Why are markets cool though GDP is hot?
A mix of reasons, both domestic and foreign, is keeping market enthusiasm on GDP numbers muted
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